So, I was checking out Pownce, and was reading there about page and came across this.

http://www.djangoproject.com/

What is it? How does it help? Would this help with PHP development? I mean surely "Pownce" is built using PHP, or is it using all python and Django? What is all this stuff? I'm completly lost...hehe.

I understood that.... Looks like it's a framework like ROR, using Python. Python is a high-level scripting language, I messed around with it a bit a while ago and was impressed by the speed! Otherwise I can't offer any wisdom....

It looks a lot like ROR.

Check out this video tutorial.

http://www.showmedo.com/videos/video?name=...romSeriesID=110

Yep! Django in a framework-type language (like Ruby)

Jeff Croft is a well known user of Django. He created a CMS for his blog using that.Brian Veloso just released his new design and he also used Django for the back-end. Have a look at his about page, there's a little blurb in the Colophon section ("The Backend") about it

what DON'T you know?

I think Karinne simply knows how to use Google....

Google Smoogle

Just lots of reading through blogs of the many leaders in this industry (Jeffrey Zeldman, Dan Cederholm, etc...) and checking out the site that they bookmark

*bump*

I'm looking into reading into python and setting myself up for learning it sometime later this year.

Has anyone got any good references to books?

A client of the print place i work for was looking at something web wise for us as a second opinion and spoke really highly of it. It's meant to be great for processing things, and alot faster than C and ASP.NET. Thinking of building a ripping system for our digital printer with it. Getting fed up of imposing card sheets throughout the week. It's a waste of time when i could easily code a programme to stick the pdf's together with gutters etc.

Really reccommend this, helped me when i started to look into it

http://www.diveintopython.org/

This thread is a bit old but I thought I'd dive in and add my own experience with Django.

I was employed to my current position as a professional PHP programmer but a few weeks ago the boss decided that a huge project coming up was to be built using python instead I was a bit miffed at first because it basically gave me three days to learn a framework that is in a language I have never before touched.

Having now been using Django for a week and a half I must say that it is a very, very solid framework for rapid development. The documentation is absolutely fantastic and python is a neat, clean and logical language.

I will continue exploring Python but more deeply, I will explore Django because it is such a comprehensive and well-supported framework that really covers almost everthing you would ever need to do in Python. Everything you build is a portable application that can be used over and over again without changing a single line of code and there are as many apps available to be snapped-in as possibilities.

I will continue to specialise in PHP as it is more widely supported and easy to deploy but where I will just as willingly build Django/Python applications where the server can support it.

Recommend anyone thinking about it to have a look.

Hmmm ... does this mean we need to add a new forum for you

LOL, I think there is one already for python -- which I am the Team Leader of Means I had best get cracking and make myself ready for all the questions my glowing endorsement above may trigger